Re: QOTW: What was the first CPU you ever purchased?

Going by the more modern CPU format then my first came with a pre-built as I was only about 13 at the time and hadn't delved into building at that point, BUT it was an Intel P166 that came with an awful Packard Bell Win95 PC.

The first ever chip I used in any device however was the one inside the commodore c64

[EDIT] oops they don't count! My first stand alone cpu part was an AMD Athlon x2 (prior CPU's came in bundles)

Re: QOTW: What was the first CPU you ever purchased?

I see a lot of AMDs here Hopefully Ryzens are selling as well, because really they are the Athlon XPs of these days.
My first CPU was a Athlon XP 2000+ ~1.67Ghz which overclocked to over 1.8Ghz. Very nice CPU indeed.

Re: QOTW: What was the first CPU you ever purchased?

It depends on how you classify purchased, my the first cpu(s) I requested in a custom build (I basically said what I wanted) were 2x AMD MP1900+ cpu's but I didn't actually install them because I wanted some warranty on what was a very expensive machine at the time.

The first cpu I bought and built into a rig myself was an AMD Opteron 175 iirc, it actually replaced the rig above. Now I pretty much refuse to buy off the shelf pc's even though I hate how small and fiddly it is to install some parts of a pc these days.

Re: QOTW: What was the first CPU you ever purchased?

I was given a Pentium II 233, cartridge looking thing and an S3 Virge DX to get me started. The first CPU I actually bought for myself though was an AMD Duron 900. At the time I couldn't afford a fully fledged chip and settled on the Duron as gaming performance was better than the Celeron of the time.